The Sun. — London, England, 1808-09-14 00:00:00

!I are few examples of a eendii& so incoila sistent with all the principles of the muitary The General, who was unable to tommand his artily, discovered himself in the negociations which follow ed equally destitute of political firmness and ability. Like SABINUS TITURIUS, he rushed upon destruction, entirely from a spirit of infatuation, and suffered biraself to be deceived by the artifices and pqrsua-, hions of another AD.IBIORIX. But the Rcaitti sa diers, more fortunate than ours, perished with their arms in their hands. " This tmexpeaed intelligence, still more import ant from the encouragement which it must give the insurgents,. the advices of numerous descents by the English on the coast of Galicia, and the excessive heat Of the season, which checked all the operations Which circumstances Might render necessary, indu ced the KING to assemble his troops, and to place them in a cooler climate than that of New catitiie, and in a situation which presents a mild&Attudi l j P h ere and better water. " The KING lett Madrid on the Ist of August; and the whole arm) went into cooler cantonments. "So late as the 20th of August, the insurgents had tot entered Madrid. They appear to be in a state Of complete contusion and dissention. " On the 22d, the KINTG was at Burgos, and par ties sent out to the distance of from fifteen to twenty slides could procure no intelligence of the enemy. "Every intelligent person sees with regret, that England has obtained the melancholy advato <tge of iiixciting among the Spaniards a civil war, of which the issue is not doubtful. But what influence can the rational and enlightened middle class icave upon the ignorant multitude, when led astray by fana ticism, popular prejudices, and foreign corruption ? General DUIIESME has again entered Barcelona, where he intends to unite his corps, and to keep that important city in check, all the forts of which are in hands. " The English Cruizers having landed some tnissaries at Bilboa, the people of that city were Weak enough to break out into insurrection, in which, however, the mercantile and respectable Classes of inhabitants took no part. Gen. MERLIN Thatched against the places with two squadrons of Cavalry, and two regiments of infantry. He car tied two monasteries by storm, disarmed the insur gents, and re-established the Government of the Provioce. The loss of the insurgents amounted to 500 men. Our's consisted in only three killed and 12 wounded. " Such is the corredabstraa of the events of the tarnpaign in Spain. There has been no battle, S not a single action, in which the courage of our troops was nut displayed to advantage. " Had General Durota kept his troops united in a body, he would, without much difficulty, have dis persed the insurgents, their army having consisted only of three divisions, scarcely forming a total of 20,000 men. 1 ' The bo.lies of insurgents scarcely deserve to be mentioned in this war. They defended themselves behi n d a wall or house, but could not tnaintain themselves in the open fields and a single squa dron of cavalry, or a battalion of infantry, is sot& jelit to put many thousands of them to the rout. The principal army of the insurgents was that Itlich Marshal BESSIERES annihilated at Medina L ie) Rio Seco. All that the English Papers have plblished re 'lng The affairs of Spain is unf o u n d e d an d f a l se . England knows well the part she is ailing on this ~t ive: s i °n• Sh e a l so k nows we ll w h at s h e i s to er.- r e ` 4 , fr()M all her e ff orts . H er on l y o bj e & is to in vol Spain i n confusion, that she may thereby make herself niistress of such of her possessions as best Stilt her purposes." MAILS. ARA/VIM—I : Dublin. Du E-3 Gottenburghs 2 Waterford. • PRICE OF s - eocKs THIS DA Y AT TWELVE. O ' CLOCK. C"gia " -66 I Ommum • dis• THE SUN. 80LILIvl QUIS D1C114.1 lALsUM AUDZAT LONDON, Vilpt4SbAYs SEPTEMBER 14, 1808. a A Schoone r arrived on Monday at Plymouth from Corunna in six days. She does not brin g any intelli gence of importance. No movements had taken place in Spain, except that Gerleral BLAKE had quitted the position whith he had for some the occupied, and had advanced to Rio Cea, cm his march towards llurgos. No authentic ac counts had reached Corunna from Portugal. There was, however, a report there, that another Battle had taken place, that Juwar had been defeated, with the loss of 5,00 u men, that he was killed, *lid that Lisbon had surrendered. A Gentleman has 460 arrived who left Oporto on the 3d instant, and at that time no accounts had reached that place sub sequent to those of the Battle of the 2 'St. A Mail from . Heligoland also arrived this morning. The Duke of Kent Packet has arrived from Ja tnaita;by which we have the Kin g ston Papers to the 14th 'July. They do not contain any intelligence from the Spanish Colonies, but we are extremel. sorry to say, that they announce the' death of Ge-j neral VILLEVITS, the Commander in Chief of the Forces in Jamaica. Re is succeeded in the command by General CARMICIIAEL. At length the French Despot has thought proper to present to his enslaved people an account of his failure in Spain. It appeared in the Moniteur of the 6th inst. and was copied in one of the Dutch Jour nals, whi c h we received last night , down to •ri L . he. 1t th instant. This account of the proceedings . of the French in Spain, and of the glorious. eventa in th a t country, i s, as might be expe6l - ed, a comp Jund of the most gross and contra cir'y falsehdods from the liegintiiiit 16 4 .'be It is not drawn up with the usual art of the French Govet'nment, but is as inconsistent as it is falSe, and destitute of every thing like probability. It is ob servable, tirSt-that wlth the single exception of DUPOicr'S defeat, the account sayS that the French arms were invariably successful ; and even in men tioning Durotcr's defeat, it says nothing distinElly of his surrender. It is quite silent as to the loss .of the French Fleet in Cadiz, and equal ly, so as to ail the disgraces which have at tended the French arms . in Saragossa. DuroNT seems to be consigned to destru&ion, and there fore he will be Wise in never attempting to return to France. The Spanish Patrio:s are eVety where mentioned as Rebels and . Insurgents. The People of Spain in general are represented as being in a greater state of ignorance than those of any other_ Country. The losses on the pa , * of the Spaniards are said to have been great, and those of the French very trifling. Sometimes the Spanish Insurgents are Smugglers, then Monks and peasantry ; but in spite of all the attempts of the Moniteur to disguise the truth, it will at times break out. We hear of" the great force" with which they appeared in some places, of " the principal army of the Insurgents," and of " the great extent of ground" which the Rebel Forces occupy. We are told, too, of the impossibility which attended the attempts of the French and Spanish Traitors to bring back to obedi ence (to JOSEPH) an ignorant and tnnatical people. The greatest cruelties are imputed to the Spaniards, to whom, indeed, the Moniteur only transfers those cruelties which have been practised by the French themselves. Upon the whole, the accounts are cal culated to discourage the French from engaging in any farther enterprizes against Spain, rather than to anim.tte them in a cause where they are, only likely to sacrifice themselves to.'gratify the pride of their Tyrant,n t, and to elevate his family. We cannot avoid noticing the manner in which this account mentions the flight ofJOSEPii from Madrid. The KING, we are told (poor i loseva), " had been induced to assemble his' troops, and to place them in a cooler climate than that of Cas tile, and in a situation which presents a milder atmos phere, and better water," and therefore on the Ist of August, he and " the whole army went into cooler cantonments." But the heat of the atmos phere, and the badness of the water, was not dis covered till he heard of the unexpected defeat of DuroNT, and the n u met ous descents of the English ! The State Paper from his Holiness the Pon, which we preßent to our Readers this day, is a very important and interesting document. It con tains a clear and affeAling narrative of the injustice, ingratitude, and trranny of the French Despot, rind trust have a powerful operation on the Continent. We are happy to announce the safe arrival of the Leeward Islands and Quebec Convoys, at Deal and Dover. The Manchester Packer is arrived at Falmouth from New-York and Halifax—she left the former place on the 6th August, and the latter on the 251 h ; :the letters will be delivered to-morrow. The Duke of Kent Packet is also arrived at Falmouth from Ja maica, in 42 days. His Majesty's Brig Hunter sail ed from Kingston on the 28th July with the trade for the place of rendezvous and Great Britain. Admiral DACRES had an audience with Lord NULGRAVE at the Admiralty this morning. Sir DAVID BAIRD, with the Expedition under his cwomand, have sailed from Cork with a fair wind. A Cabinet Council was held at the Foreign Office yesterday, which sat from three until four o'clock, and was attended by the Duke of PORTLAND, Lord CASTLEREAGH, Lord MULGRAVE, Earl BATHURST, Mr. SPENCER PERCEVAL, &C. The Transports with the brigade of Guards on board, came into the Downs on Sunday, and the embarkation of the remainder of the troops com menced yesterday. The 6 Ist Regiment has been ordered to join the Expedition at Cork immediately. There was yesterday no less than six arrivals from different parts of St. Domingo. By M. D A eY, an eminent merchant of Cape Francois, who sailed from Gonaives the 30th of July, we are inforrmd that there is no truth in the reports of Monday last, of St. Marc and Gonaives having been taken in the month of July. Both these places continued in the.. power of CURISTOPHE'S troops, and no attack from PETION'S side was apprehended. Not only Gen. ROMAIN had not been shot, but he was high in the confidence of CHRISTOPHE, who appointed him, in July last, Chief of the Staff of his army. . ,Both Chieftains have an army of 30,000 men under their orders. Specie is much wanted, and conarnerce •very" dull, though there is abundance of produce. `All reports, from those quarters, should be received with extreme caution. The sentence of the Court-Martial which tried tha Generals who signed the capitulation of the suit,..nder of Copenhagen to the English, has been made public. Generals PYEMAII and BIELFELD are adjudged to suffer death, and General WATTBRDURF to be ba nished. JOHN LAcV, Esq. of Wimborne Minster, shot i:Astilthe Manor of Verwood, is the county of Dor set; bn, the third day's shooting, this season, 30 brace of partridges, 10 brace of hares, and 12 cou ple of rabbits : he commenced his day's sport with the rising sun, and closed it at four o'clock. Six servants, with four brace of pointers, attended hint. What makes this day's sport the more extraordinary, the whole Manor is not more than 2,500 acre*, „ Nz . • - ••• NAVAL TIEW& PLYMOUTH, SEPT. 12:—Arri l .red the Ameilcitti Ship Sally, PHILIPS; from AMerica, bound to Bout; deaux, in ballast, delailid by the Indefatigable Fri gate, Capt. ROD!); the Ship S'iork, CHAMBEAS, f rom Jamaica, bound to London; put in here by contrary witid ; the Ships Ocian, FACEY, Trelawny, WALKER, and Two Brothers, CHANTLIR, 11 . 0111 Quebec, bound to this Port, laden with timber and deals ; the Brig Endeavour, Wow), from Malta; bound to London, laden with oil and currants, put in here by contrary wind; and the Portuguese Brig Pentia Franca, from Pernambuco, bound to Ult . - don, laden with sugar, cotton, and hideS. The following Transports arrived hel-e yesterday from Gibraltar, under convoy of His Majesty's Ships Queen and Windsor Castle, viz, the Lord Mulgrave, TODD, Elizabeth, KENDAL, Sally, BRAID, and Mer chant, FOT HERINGII AM. Arrived the Nimrod Sloop of War from Tortola, which place she left the 31st Jialy last, in company with His Majesty's Ships Adamant, Ramifies, and Hippomenes ; also a large convoy, consisting of ti 06 Sail, which passed up Channel this morning. A Schooner arrived here this evening from Co runna, which brings intelligence that a repot was current when she left Corunna, four days sirlc , !, of the capture of Lishop by the British troops, after an aaion, in which JUNoT was killed. PORTSMOUTH, SEPT. 13.—Arrived the Pori nation Brig, Capt. CHAMBERS, from a cruise. Sailed the Sparrow Brig, Capt. BURT, with a small convoy, for Falmouth. Yesterday arrived the Brig Collingwood, Capt.' OSBORN, from Dominica : she .vas rim foul of at sea by a Ship, name unknown, which carried away both masts, and swept every thing dear with the deck. The Ship then run foul of the Nimrod Sloop of War, and it is much to be feared that both foun dered, as they were not seen after by the Coiling wood. The convoy left Tortola, being about 150 - Sail, under the prote&ion of the &unities, of 74 guns, on the 24th July, and the Collingwood parted with them off the .Li; rd a few days ago. The American,Brig General Armstrong, Capt. SIN. CLAIR, lying at the Motherbank waiting convoy for the Mediterranean, was last night struck by light ning, which shivered her maintop•mast and top gallant-mast to pieces. YARMOUTH, SEPT. 13.—Yesterday Admiral RUS SELL struck his flag on board the Majestic, which Ship, with the Aboukir and Minotaur, sailed fbr the Baltic. DOVER, SEPT. 13.—Passed by for London the Quebec Fleet of 15 ; also the following Ships of the Leeward Island and Jamaica Fleets, viz. The Lloyd's, Morgan, Harriet, Reid, lames, Carter, Econom ; ', Garnock, Hawke bury, Radley, Inviter, Mar tin, and Ech o , Steward, from larnaica ; Duchess of York, D , rnier, and Progress, Manning, from Surinam ; Dart, Pa terson, from 13erbiee ; Hopewell, Corey, trout Barbadoes ; Cove, Vestley, troin Tohao ; Proselyte, Barton, from Do. tn:tnea ; princes; M'ary, ltill,and Dal, Howell, from Santa Cruz ; Fortitude, Rand, from St. Kitt's; Ann, M'Kenzie, Frederick, M'Don.di.l, Arundel, Tate, Trio, Jackson" and Harmony, Wilson, trorn Demerara. SHEERNESS, SEPT. 12.—Came down froM Chat ham and anchored at the Little Nore, the Merope Sloop of War, Captain DODD j and Gallant Gun brig. • Yesteday four men belonging to the Ned Elven Sloop of War, who were, with a Midshipman, sent on duty in the jolly boat, forcibly took the command from the Officer and landed on the Essex shore, where they made their escape. HALF-PAST FIVE.- 7 A great number of West India men are passing for the River ; also the East‘lndia Fleet have passed the Nore for the River. DEAL, SEPT. 13.—Arrived His Majesty's Ship Ramilies with a Convoy from the Leeward Islands; His Majesty's Ship Adamant with a Convoy from Jamaica; and His Majesty's Ship Amelia with a Convoy from Quebec. A favourite dog, of the Newfoundland breed, the property of the Duke of VORK, died a few days ago. From - some suspicious circumstances con• fleeted with the death of the animal, his Royal Highness had the body opened, when it, was found that he bad been poisoned. The perpetrator of this Cruel act has not yet been discovered. Last week a man who sells fish about Chelsea and Fulham, undertook for a wager of five 'guineas t©► run from Hyde Park-corner to the seven mile stone at Brentford, in one hour, with 541 b. weight on his head, which he performed in 45 minutes with ease. General FERGUSON is the second son Of FERGU- , sox, of Raith, who derived anlimmense fortune from his uncle, Mr. FERGUSON, of Austin Friars, a mer chant of great respedability in London, who died a bachelor, leaving a fortune of at least 300,0001. accumulated in the fairest and most honourable manner. The General was brought up under the celebrated Professor PLAYFAIR, at Edinburgh, and made a remarkable proficiency in mathematics— thus laying the best founs/ation for becoming an able Taditiota and EngiLeer. General FERGUSON is Member for Kirkaldy, in Fifeshire, in which county lie his father's estates. Saturday as Mr. Stocking, a builder, was descend ing a ladder, reared against the front of a house is the Edgeware-road, he missed one of the muds, fell VW' Uie porment, pcd iFotantly .410, j'Aiilfrcz Ii 'Much re/ilk announce the death of General ILLiAM ANNI; VILLETTES, Litfutenaht-GoVe'rnor and t Onimandt in Chief of the Forces in this Island.-'This melar.m cholY event took place on Wednesday sight laSt; it Mrs. Baow:4's estate; named Union; in the parish Of St. George. On the Bth instant he itiripeaed tfie Gth battafion of the Goal regiMent quartered at Pcirt. Antonio, where, In conieluence of the eitterne badness of the weather; he *as detained britilthi 11th, when he proceeded fain) thence to Buff-Bai, in St. George's; fOr the purpose of it*e&iti,g the detachnierit of the Goth Stationed theie, but was =seized with a 'fever on thejOurney, WhiCh unhappily terminated hiS existence. Also, on the same day, at Port-Antonio, departed this life; Captain AUIERT tuRatTI . N; Aide-de:Camp and Nephew k the' Lieutenant-Governor, whO has left a widow with two children to lament his prernattire kiss: The remains of General VlLLtriii Were brought to Port-Royal yesterday evening in a droggitig SchoOner; which arrived from the Northside, but we have not been able to ascertain her name. IRELAND. . butt cttr, SEPT. 10.—The Holyhead Mail, due on Thursday, arrived in that plate it twelve o'clock the day before, and reached the Pigeon-house at two o'clock yesterday morning, being the earliest arrival ever known. This unexampled eXpeditioti • was in consequence df the new arrangement which has esfablished tile running of the Mail Coach on the ShrewSbury road, instead of the old circuitoni route by Chester. The London Coach will, in In jure, arrive at Holyhead every day at two ecinck, instead of six or seven, as formerly, and the P.acket will sail, in every possible case, in a few minutes after. An Express armed rider takes the Liverpool bags from the Coach at Chirk ; by which arrange ment it is supposed that six Irish Mails out cf eight will arrive one day earlier in the former town than heretofore. This is no inconsiderable improVement in the constant and necessary communication be tween LiverpOol and this City. c` ..% are informed, from good authority; that the. English Mail is (after some arrangements Windt have not yet been finally settled) to be sent every evening, at t certain fixed hour, from the General Post-Onice, to Howth, where it will be received by the Packet, and from whence ik can be dispatched at any time of the tide, or state of the wind. This re gularity of the departure will promote in an emi nent degree the great desideratunt in all posting communications, the regularity of arrival. LIMERICK, SEPT. 10.—About three o'4loak, this morning, a party of horsemen, to the number of sixty or upwards, all armed, came to the nouse"of Michael Fowlon, of Luddinbeg, near Ballyneety, and demanded arms, which was reused; they then begnti breaking into the house, and one man had nearly forced in through a window, when a resolute wo. man pushed him back ; they then vowed the de struaion of the house and family, and - Set about breaking the door and windows, when a Shot was fired from the inside, which did some execution, and set the villains to flight; one of them was shot in the head, ai a bloo.ly hat and perforated by s!ugs, was found after them ; they also left a whip with knotted cords, which they dealt out as a warning - to those who won't bend to th"eir orders; they returned by the Limerick road, through Ballyneety, about an hour befOre day; one man, whom, they called Cap.. 4a5r4-; wore a three cockade military hat.Soldierli caps with brass plates were seen on more of them; scarce a week passes that those hireling diSturbers of the peace are not in parties three or 'bur times in the vicinity of Limerick. The Church of Grantham was robbed of the Com munion Plate, on Friday last, by fOur men, who travelled in two gigs. After the commiSsidn of the robbery, and drinking two bottles of the sacramental wine; they drove the same night to a village about 2,o:tiiil"64ltom, Grantham. The robbery was soon diSCovere4 of course an immediate pursuit took place, and they were taken at the inn where they had put up. One of them endeavoured to effeL•t hiS escape by leaping out of a window three stories high ; he was dreadfully bruised, but his life is not considered to be in danger. They were all lodged in Grantham gaol on Sunday. Saturday night a man threw hitriself otit Of a two pair ot'stairs window in White Lion•street, Pentori ville, in a state of delirium, and Was killed On the spot. On Sunday morning last died, at her seat, at Lewisham, in Kent, GERTRUDE BRAND, Baroness DACRE, rely of THOMAS BRAND, EST of the Hoe, in Hertfordshire, who died in February, 1794. Her Ladyship succeeded her brother, the Hon. CHARLES TREVOR ROPER; the late Lord DA CRE, in July, 1794 ; and is now succeeded b%! tier eldest son, the Hon. THomns BRAND; M. P. tbi- Hertfordshire. No wife more sincerely regretted the loss of an affeetionate husband than her Lady ship. When at Lewisham, she, every-evening, hri attended, visited his tomb, and shed tears to hit methOiy: 7 ' Her life was a continued scene of bene volence and charity ; and her memory will long be cherished by the widow and the orphan ; she was in her 58th year. CORN-EXCHANGE, SEPT. 14.—There are but few arrivals of Wheat to-day, and the supply at h'and is very short ; the new that comes is lig!ir and inferior, which causes samples of fine old to fetch an incre:ise in price ; Barley very scarce ; Malt rather dearer ; White.Pease.none; very few Grey, or Beans of the two` tits those also are dearer; Oats in mid dling.supply,atlittle variation; Flour this week is dearer. • . Wheat 75s a 9os a tons od Tick Beans c 58s a 63s od Fine ditto . t 025 a toss ex: Oats -36 s aOs a 4 , s D.l Rye - - sos a 54s od Poland ditto 4is a 42: o d Barley - - 4os a 465 od I Potatce - - —4 a :44s ad Malt - -72 s a Was o di Rape Seed . 401 a 431 -- et 4 White Pease —s a—s od Fine Flour - Sos a E4s , d Grey ditto - 6os a 65s od Sem - WS a. P 7.is a SQA 0,4 . Deam -; m a 6.” aop od ,